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Author's Note: A big thanks to ryo sanada, moderndaybattosai and Rika- chan17 for your reviews! I appreciate them!

Now he was on edge. Kenshin muttered about getting no sleep last night, but no one paid him much attention, all of them but Sano was still asleep on the floor.

"Ha ha!" Sano cried. "We're getting off this thing!" he started doing a little jig in circles around the room. Yahiko and Kaoru had drug themselves off of the floor and started to follow Sano's example of packing.

"Wait, uh. Kenshin, why were we on the floor together?" Kaoru asked, turning slightly pinking around the cheeks.

Kenshin groaned and let his head become a mallet for the percussion instrument that was the wooden floor.

"Wow missy, you must have really worn him down last night." Sano smirked, and received a heavy blow to the head from Kaoru.

"Shut up Sano!"

"I think you'd rather not know, that I do Miss Kaoru." Kenshin replied. She gave him a blank look and shrugged it off.

"Well hey! Lets get off this thing, or Misao will begin to think we're not here!" Yahiko piped up.

"Yes, lets g-. Kenshin! Pack your stuff, we need to get off, you can't lie around on the floor gripping just because you stayed up all night!" Kaoru shouted.

Kenshin clasped his hands over his ears and grated his teeth together. "This is worse than drinking too much sake!" he said to himself. His eyes watered and his legs wanted to give out beneath him. With shaky hands, he began to stuff his belongings into his bag.

"Here, let me help." Sano offered, placing his hand on Kenshin's shoulder so that he could get to Kenshin's stuff to help put it in the bag. At his touch though, Kenshin whirled. Sano received a hard blow to his chest, if Kenshin had had a sword in hand, it would have been a lethal strike.

"Kenshin, what the-." Sano started.

Kenshin sighed. "Sorry Sano, I'm on edge because of lack of sleep, that I am, it'll be alright as soon as I get in a good nap."

"Well, you can sleep when we get to the Aoiya, now let's go!" Kaoru said grabbing Kenshin's sword and shoving it into place at his side then took his hand in hers and began quickly walking out of the car.

Something didn't feel right, but Kenshin couldn't put his finger on it, he was too tired. But something was definitely awkward right now.

The sunlight hurt his eyes, and he squinted into the road ahead. Then the familiar feeling hit him, a warrior's spirit was behind him. it was jumping. at his back. it yelled something.

"Himura!"

Kenshin spun, sword in hand, catching the offender in the gut midair. Kenshin's eyes sprang open at the difference of the affect of his attack on the body; blood splattered over Kaoru and Sano from the wound. Realization came to him. "That's what felt different and out of place, Miss Kaoru put my sword in upside down in her haste to get off of the train." He thought to himself in a flash, then looked down and felt his heart sink. Misao lay at his feet, crumpled, and holding her abdomen, blood running freely from the wound. Sano deftly turned her to her back to look at the wound, and Kaoru knelt down beside her friend. But Kenshin stood in utter horror at what lay before him. He used to be Battousai, he had killed before, and he knew a lethal injury when he saw one. Misao's internal organs were slashed; there was nothing or no one who could fix that amount of damage in this day and age. Guilt, horror, sorrow, sadness, all these horrible emotions overwhelmed him.

Sano and Yahiko had run off to go get help, while Kaoru stayed by Misao's side. Kenshin knelt down and placed his head near Misao's ear.

"Please forgive me." He said, and then reached into his sleeve to pull out the same blade Tomoe had used to complete his cross-shaped-scar, and introduced the small bit of metal to his gut. Kenshin fell over into Kaoru's lap, blood coming up and exiting from his mouth.

"Kenshin!"

Kenshin reached up to pull Kaoru's head near to his. "I'm sorry Miss Kaoru, that I am, but it is time for me to wander to a new place." He said, and then released his hold on consciousness, and went limp in her arms.

Author's Note: Yes, I know Kenshin would never do this after his last lesson with Master Hiko, with the whole desire for life and all, but is was just an idea that had popped into my head, and besides, this is Fanfiction! So there you have it. The end. Please no flames for this!